Columbus Crew SC vs Toronto FC MLS Regular Season Match - Saturday, June 2 7:30 PM - MAPFRE Stadium Broadcast: ESPN+, CW Columbus, Spectrum Sports OH, BCSN2 Links: MLS Match Center Vitals: Columbus Crew SC 25 P / 14 G / 1.79 PPG | 7W-3L-4D | 18 GF / 10 GA / 8 GD | L5: DWWWD Toronto FC 10 P / 11 G / .091 PPG | 3W-7L-1D | 14 GF / 20 GA / -6 GD | L5: WLLWL Goal Leaders: Columbus Crew SC Gyasi Zardes - 8 Federico Higuaín - 3 Lalas Abubakar - 1 Harrison Afful - 1 Ricardo Clark - 1 Mike Grella - 1 Pedro Santos - 1 Milton Valenzuela - 1 Toronto FC Jozy Altidore - 2 Jay Chapman - 2 Sebastian Giovinco - 2 Jonathan Osorio - 2 Victor Vázquez - 2 Tosaint Ricketts - 1 Mitchell Taintor - 1 Ryan Telfer - 1 Previous Meeting: March 3, 2018 @ BMO Field Columbus Crew SC 2, Toronto FC 0 Notes: Trilly, trilly! Let's get silly! IT'S TRILLIUM CUP TIME. That's right, my beloved troglodytes, we could claim our first sweet, sweet hardware of the regular season with a win this Saturday ! Aren't you ********ing amped?! ...no? Not at all? Dammit. How could I have so incredibly misread this situation? ... REGARDLESS! Let's beat those syrup-chuggin', Hexagonal-chokin' rat bastards from the Great White North! And get a dumb trophy, too. Yay. And let me level with you: uh... we're going to be missing just about half of our team. Awkward, I know. For those of you keeping score at home: Wil Trapp - INTERNATIONAL DUTY Zack Steffen - INTERNATIONAL DUTY Pedro Santos - INJURED (maybe??) Jonathan Mensah - INJURED (maybe??) Cristian Martínez - SUSPENDED (two games!!) Federico Higuaín - SUSPENDED (maybe??) That's like, a whole lotta starters or first-off-the-bench guys. And, yes, while Toronto has struggled this season, I'm not going to feel great about missing so many of our key players. I'd type more, but I am too GOSH DARN BUSY. xoxo Discuss.
Kempin Afful - William - Abubakar - Valenzuela Artur - Clark Hansen - Sosa/Argudo - Grella Zardes That will do.
Okay, some more info from Erickson on the injury situation: 1001881963454717952 is not a valid tweet id The bad, bad, stupid, evil, bad guys are also dealing with some injuries:
I was in a meeting so I did not thoroughly read through the poll options... And now I feel like one of my students. Penance to Crew fans for missing that PK will be given by Hype Train this Saturday.
That is the most like for like way to do it. You could also start Abu & move Artur to CAM. This could also work, though defensive, 3-5-2: -------------------Kempin------------- -----Williams---Sauro--Abubakar------ Afful-----Clark-------Artur------Valenzuela ----------------------Grella------------------------- -------------Zardes--------Hansen--------- Bench: Ketterer; Jimenez, Crognale, Abu, Argudo, Jahn + Sosa/Opoku.
man, when i was 1 for 13 and 52nd place in the grouchy point table, voting in the poll was easy. now that ive rocketed up the table with a magnificent two match streak, i feel more pressure than precum does when he talks about metrics.
I'm assuming this will be the lineup. Gregg seems to have a lot of faith in Argudo so I bet he starts for Pipa....and then well probably see Sosa in the Open Cup.
Of the three upcoming games the open cup means the most to me. Rest the few people we have vs TFC and go strong vs Chicago
I know we are missing a bunch of players, but looking at Toronto's injury list this still is a winnable game. Especially with 10k plus at MAPFRE rocking the stands. Jozy and Moor are obviously the biggest losses for Toronto, but their depth is hurting too. If Morrow can't go, that's a significant loss. If he can go he's probably a bit rusty with only 1 MLS game under his belt this season. A win would put us 18 points ahead of Toronto. Granted they have 3 games in hand, but 18 points at this point in the season would be a significant gap. And it should be enough to hold them off and possibly have home field advantage for any possible playoff match-up down the road.
I'm really baffled by TFC. They were clearly the best team in the league last season. What the heck happened to them this year?? Yes, I realize we were saying the same thing about the Penguins at a similar point in the NHL season--but that's a longer grind and you can afford to pace yourselves a bit. ...and 18 points is a significant gap at any point in the season....
Well, they've had significant injuries is the biggest one. And similar to our schedule run that we're on now, at the beginning of the season they were playing 2 games a week with Champions League. I think, despite the league count, they've played 3 or 4 games MORE than we have to this point. I've watched a lot of their games, they look pretty decent going forward. They are just getting carved up at the back. Bradley is either covering for everyone that makes a mistake or getting torched himself because he's a step slow or not fully engaged. It's a bit of a self perpetuating cycle. There are some tired legs, they're mentally drained and a the team is banged up. It's hard to right the ship. I'm really looking forward to this one.
One goal win for the Crew! Our depth players have got a lot of minutes lately, and I think that will give us just enough confidence to top a surprisingly struggling Toronto team.
I know this will probably come back to bite me but TFC look like they just don't care about the MLS this year. Maybe play the kids because the old guys just don't care.
We killed ourselves going after the CCL both in the toll in took on the first team in and by basically throwing three league matches by starting complete back up rosters. Then we were hit by a ridiculous number of injuries including Altidore basically everyone who would normally start or even be on the bench in defence. The team is slowly reassembling itself but it will still be two or three more games before it's really TFC out there. I suspect the Crew are going to win this weekend's game pretty handily. At this point TFC's league goal for the season is simply to make the playoffs since anything near the top of the table is out of reach. Of course, by playoff time the full team should be back and firing so they should have a shot at the Cup regardless of whether they entered as the top team or in the knockout round. I'd look forward to another Crew-TFC playoff match up (and especially to being able to continue them in the future after this Austin thing hopefully dies).
"He came from a club in Venezuela We chant his name, It's Eduardo Sosa, S O S A Sosa!" Needs some work....
I kinda expected it would be. You are not going to make your reply system look worse than it does by rescinding that card. It was an pretty iffy call--but justifiable enough to leave it stand.